Melicytus novae-zelandiae(A.Cunn.) P.S.Green

WFO wfo-0001233436 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. a Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-21 / obs. 158725020
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn
fig. b Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58515813
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. c Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158725069
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn
fig. d Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58515814
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn
fig. e Courtney Tregurtha-Nairn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58515816
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. f Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158725112
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Leon Billows
fig. g Leon Billows, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160418547
Melicytus novae-zelandiae, photographed by Leon Billows
fig. h Leon Billows, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160418562

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Melicytus novae-zelandiae is native: New Zealand North, Norfolk Is. New Zealand North Norfolk Is.
Native distribution of Melicytus novae-zelandiae, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New Zealand North NZN AUSTRALASIA
Norfolk Is. NFK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hymenanthera novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) Hemsl.
  • Scaevola nova-zelandiae A.Cunn.
  • Scaevola novae-zelandiae A.Cunn.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.